I wanted to let every one know that I'm traveling this week to do an on-site training. The location is about a 12 hour drive away. (Yes we are driving) I'll be gone most of the week and my posting will likely be sporadic until I return home. I won't know how much free time I'll have there till it happens.
We'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the heads up.
Sorry for not posting this weekend, I worked through it on a tight deadline project. Had to cancel my real world game as well.
What will the shopping situation be in the town? Also, will we have to to enchant anything up to +1 (armor or shield perhaps).
You could find people to do enchanting. I'm assuming you're asking if you have time to enchant anything.
There'll be a rush charge for doing it at the drop of a hat. Or if you are willing to take a few days in town, you can get the enchanting done at normal price.
Shopping is decent, it's a small city. So usual small city limits (nothing more than 4000gp). Anything under 100 gp is universally available in pretty much any quantity as long as you stay within reason (buying 10,000 thieves tools might not be possible).
I am having difficulty keeping up with my games due to personal circumstances. I hate to drop this game because I really enjoy it, but I am consistently not being able to check it daily. I should probably withdraw to keep from hindering progression.
We'd hate to lose you Riley, but it's up to you. I understand how RL can take over.
Eva and Riley are going to be iffy this week at least.
Alexis, you said you don't want anything in town.
Kjel, Mahb, Lineera?
If people are willing, I'd like to get the armor enchanted and possibly the shield. But that is only if everyone is OK with some delay. Otherwise, he will be holding on to his money.
Kjel, Mahb, Lineera?
I can't really say what I might be interested in buying without knowing how much money we each have - from divvying up the cash, selling stuff, etc.
Personally, I think it would be good if we started tracking cash.
There are a handful of things I think Eva wanted, most of those spells were spells. And Eva had a good haul this time, so I'm willing to not get those yet.
Personally, I'd like to take the boat to take the time to craft alchemical things. Not just for herself but for other party members. Eva does it at cost for her friends (aka party members) :)
And Mahb, I'm okay with us doing a gold split. Do we want another Cure Wand? I suggest we take it out of party money before we split it if we do. I've been trying to keep up the party total on the loot page, subtracting and adding as we go.
Any communal healing devices should come out of the communal pool before divvying up as Eva said. This should also be the case for general buff items (wand of endure elements for example).
With the rush job cost, would it be cheaper to just sell off my current armor and shield and buy magic stuff? (it would also save time).
Rush job enchanting would be +25%. So, 1250 for armor and 1250 for shield. Selling would net you about 75GP per, and buying would be in the 1500gp per, so not cheaper, faster for sure.
I would only get 75gp for masterwork full plate? That's best described as highway robbery.
Sorry, didn't realize you had MS full plate, you'd get 50% of it. Most everyone had armor that was less than 30 gp. :)
The point still stands, that it wouldn't save money to sell and buy, it would only save time and cost a little more.
Well let's see masterwork full plate plus shield should be 1650 for the armor and 170 for the shield so 1820, and half so 910. Buying both in magic form is 3820. Subtract 910 and I get 2910. Cost to magic up both right now is 2500. The 410 difference is less than the jacking I get for the rush job which includes wasted time, so I might as well do it.
Of course I don't know that I have 2910 or not.
Ok, that's what I get for doing a rough guess instead of crunching the numbers. :)
Ok, I updated the loot spreadsheet with sale values. It includes the total based on a 6 person split.
If someone wants a bit from the loot sheet, they'd take the values out of the saleable items.
I didn't calculate the value of the alchemy spell book though, that takes a bit. I'll leave that for someone to add, I don't think it'll be much more per person.
Alexis was built with 6k gp, so until everyone gets to that amount I'll leave the treasure to you, dividing the share by 5 thus.
Then 1922 gp each
In that case he will sell off his masterwork shield and buy a +1 large steel shield.
He should get 85 back on the old shield and be spending 1170 on the new one.
Sounds right.
Well Eva was taking the Alchemist Book and the Small Mithril chain shirt. Since it seems like loots already been divided, do I need to just subtract that from her share?
Sorry to speak up late here - work has been hellish.
I've looked at the loot list and have a couple comments. First, there appears to be an unidentified wand in row 47. Is that a typo or can we attempt to ID it? On one of our travel days I can memorize Identify and cast that. Second, I have an arcane scroll of Hideous Laughter. It appears only Alexis can use it or we can sell it. I'm fine with either choice. Also, I was carrying 16GP and 23SP of team cash in loose change. Feel free to add that to the pile.
I agree that 'team' items (wands, scrolls, etc. of healing/restoration/group defense, etc.) should not count against anyone's total. I'm not concerned with accounting for stuff down to the last copper... just that we try for at least some level of parity. I think it makes sense to base everything off a 50% 'sell price'... so items 'purchased' from the group items cost 50% of the actual item value. Eva would pay 50% on the mithril armor (the sell price). The way I've normally seen this done is as an actual sale.
So let's say there are 5 of us and we each have a 'share' worth 1000 GP. Character V buys a widget from the group worth 800GP. V gets the item and 200GP of her 1000GP share. The 800GP paid for the item would then be split among the other 4 characters (200GP per person). At the end of the day, the split would look like this:
Char V = Widget + 200GP
Char W = 1200 GP
Char X = 1200 GP
Char Y = 1200 GP
Char Z = 1200 GP
If other characters buy items, the same process is done. The character who buys nothing from the group items winds up with the most loose cash for buying items from merchants at full price. Personally, I'm fine with some 'deficit spending' here as I think it benefits us all to keep found items in the group... so let's say Char V wants to buy a couple of items from the team whose total value goes over her share, say 1300GP of items when her share is 1000GP. Then the character could trade all her cash for the items and then we either forget about the additional 300GP she owes OR that gets recorded as 300GP she owes from the next split OR she could even borrow the money from another character. I'm fine with any of those solutions.
Again, I'm not about pinching pennies, I'd just like to see some parity because things seem a bit lopsided to me at the moment. For instance, right now Mahb has no magical gear or anything more than I started with when I built her.
MDT, are there Pearls of Power available for purchase in the town?
I'm fine paying the money out of my share for the items I really want. :) Do we want me to make party Alchemist Fires and the like? Or just let you all order what you want from me and pay out of your share?
Also, Do I need to calculate the cost on the Alchemy book? Or since it's not in the value of the loot, just take it?
I think it's fair that the team pay for any potion production. It would probably just be easiest to take that value out of the total cash before we split it into shares. I'm not sure what Eva's cash share would be but I imagine that Mithril armor is going to take up a chunk of it. I'm OK with waiving the cost of the alchemy book.
MDT has it at 625 on the sheet (or it was that last I checked).
I'll get a list together of time and cost for alchemical items, so people know and we can decide on how much of what we want.
My assumption was that you were doing it as Mahb says, take the sale price out of the share for the person who keeps it.
A mithral chain shirt is 1250, so half of that is 625.
Also, sorry for not pushing harder, this has been a long week for me. I'll be setting aside a few hours Saturday to push all my games forward.
Poke Poke at anyone other than Alexis?
Did I lose everyone when Riley posted he was leaving?
Or has it just been a bad weekend?
Don't see anything that Kjel is likely to add to the situation.
Not exactly a talker.
No problem on that, just let me know in discussion or in thread when you're just not posting due to not having something to say, so I don't hold the game up waiting for you to post is all I ask.
It was a busy busy weekend for me. I'm trying to get a post up this morning between things.
Still waiting on Lineera and Mahb
We may have lost Lineera.
I've just poked through the aliases, and nothing has been posted since 9/12. If and when Mahb posts, I'll move forward under the assumption Lineera's AWOL.
I've sent Mahb a PM. Her player has been posting in other threads. It may be the campaign tab gremlin that doesn't update the thread markers showing activity.
Will be out of town and fairly non networked, so bot me as needed. Will be back on Sunday night.
Everyone just busy lately, or bored with the game? I only ask because of the two losses and how slow posting has been. If everyone is busy, I don't mind waiting, but I don't want to have to poke people to keep it going either. I know Kjel is busy, just trying to see if people are still interested (IE: Mahb, Eva).
I'm going to go ahead and move Riley to NPC for now, and Lineera too. If either comes back, I'll move them to PC again.
I'm still interested. I've just been busy. We had two out of the office most of the week and I've been under the weather from travel related things.
That, and I've been trying to figure out what to have Eva say.
Since you were doing introductions and Mahb met him earlier, I was having Mahb remain silent. I was waiting for Kalvant's reaction to the intros and to Eva's super concise synopsis of the action.
Ok, no problem. :) I was waiting for your posts before putting in more posts. :)
"Your heart would be on the right side..."
What a relief it won't be in the wrong side!! Oh, wait!
. . . Hello friends. :)
I have 500+ gameplay posts to catch up on, but from the recent discussion posts, it sounds like you're losing people again? If there's room for one more, I have been considering bringing Cathran back in if you'll still have her.
Hi Cathran. :)
Sure, they're in Perdition's Point right now. :)
Hi Cathran :)
Glad to see you back!
Yay! Welcome back, although I didn't see you here the first time since I just arrived at a mirrowed portal...
Hey folks,
I'm going to be on vacation for about 10 days starting on Tuesday (7th). I'll try to post but I may not have the opportunity regularly. Feel free to bot me as needed.
Hey y'all, I'm still planning on coming back in! I've been updating Cathran's stats and gear, and have also been sick this past week. I'm feeling better, though, and I plan to get back in on the action by tomorrow. :)
Sorry everyone, buried at work. Will try to get posts up tonight.
Just passed by to steal the 1k post. Really busy now.